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Date:      Sat, 26 Sep 2020 08:00:37 -0700
From:      Yuri Victorovich <yuri@freebsd.org>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r550109 - in head/sysutils: . dnf dnf/files
Message-ID:  <e5a56573-6f57-6c17-d7f1-c1955a82cd07@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200926134841.8879db21ca7ffc012fa53deb@bidouilliste.com>
References:  <202009260701.08Q71fqM075759@repo.freebsd.org> <20200926134841.8879db21ca7ffc012fa53deb@bidouilliste.com>

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On 2020-09-26 04:48, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
>   What is the point of adding all those fedora/rpm/blah related ports in
> the FreeBSD ports tree ?


FreeBSD has linuxlator that is able to run Linux binaries. RPM repositories

is one source of easy to install prepackaged Linux software. RPMs can be

installed on FreeBSD using sysutils/dnf as an alternative to */linux-* 
ports.

There are only so many */linux-* ports, and they take time and effort to

create. dnf allows to easily install any of tens of thousands of RPMs. Some

of this software isn't ported to FreeBSD.


Hope this answers your question.


Regards,

Yuri





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